Re: RMAN Compession (Again)

From: Don Seiler <don_at_seiler.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:26:09 GMT
Message-ID: <pan.2003.11.10.15.28.09.590395@seiler.us>

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 20:43:19 +0100, Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:36:48 GMT, Don Seiler <don_at_seiler.us> wrote:
>
>>On our Oracle7 database, our hot backup procedure basically puts each
>>tablespace in backup mode and then copies and gzips the datafiles to the
>>backup dir. The resulting backup dir is 27G. I'd ask.
>
> Basically you can, but keep in mind you need to unzip them before any
> restore, as RMAN won't find them, as the names have changed.
> Something which is good enough to forget about it, I guess

Also, if it comes to worst-case-scenario, will our old way of doing our backups (as described above) work? Received on Mon Nov 10 2003 - 09:26:09 CST